1941

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

Years: 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 - 1941 - 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946

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Births

• January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker

• February 11 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman.

• February 11 - Jeremy Mackenzie, general.

• Richard Dawkins, British scientist

• Bob Dylan, US poet and musician

Deaths

• February 11 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/Minister of Finance.

• August 31 - Marina Tsvetaeva, aged 48, Russian poetess (suicide)

Events

• February 11 - 1st Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo.

• February 11 - Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli.

• June 22 - Germany attacks the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, Finland sees an opportunity and launches the Continuation War.

• December 7 - Japan attacks the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the US into World War II.

• John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry developed the Atanasoff Berry Computer

• Ives and Stilwell prove that ions radiate at frequencies affected by their motion.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - not awarded

• Chemistry - not awarded

• Medicine - not awarded

• Literature - not awarded

• Peace - not awarded